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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
10
A miscellany of quick observations and quips from various locales. It touches on gender limits in China, a Cincinnati capture of a thief, leap year quirks, a Pittsburg millionaire disguise, and mentions of American social mores, Paris forestry, and highway praise in France.
A mix of anecdotes on hog cholera remedies and a police patrol wagon misadventure. Mr A P Williams of Burnetts Creek recounts Sloan’s ointment success in hogs, while a drunk driver escapes, prompting a hurried patrol wagon and a joking referee to a hearsay incident.
An old surgeon recounts giving up coffee after tremors and insomnia impaired his work. He credits Postum with steadier hands, improved circulation, and finally asks for Postum to become a national drink. The story notes his friend also switched and praises proper preparation per package directions.
The text argues heredity as a core driver of human betterment and urges persuasive not mandatory policy. It warns against dangerous control over offspring while favoring easier marriage and stricter divorce to ensure parental responsibility. It notes immigration as a potential quick source of new blood for improvement.
An old column argues flirting is fading yet advises men to marry a flirt for happiness. It lauds flirtatious women as vital, lively, and often better wives and mothers, noting their charm lightens workaday life and earns affection, despite minor faults.
A discussion of shifting prayer practices driven by scientific thought. Prayer becomes more about gratitude and daily work than petition, with emphasis on personal growth, social action, and daily duties as worship. It cites irrigation, sanitation, medicine, and economic policy as new forms of prayer.
A 1907 survey from Coaldale reports 349 acres of grain with 197 acres spring wheat and 152 oats. Wheat yields averaged 38 bushels per acre and oats 74, with hay 60 tons valued at 13 per ton and 500 bushels of potatoes. The note details best yields 41 bushels per acre for wheat and 95 bushels per acre for oats, plus stubbled oats and prior farming work in 1906.
Milwaukee grain merchant J. H. Van Burden warns western farmers that the agricultural department estimates losses from rats at 100 million dollars annually. He claims a rat costs about fifty cents yearly to feed and estimates the national rat population at 150 million, with about one third in large cities where grain is scarce.
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